Don’t You Forget About Me – John Hughes Documentary [VIDEO]

John Hughes is easily one of the most important people in the history of film. He was the master of the teen film. This doc is about young filmakers looking for him after he hid away from almost everyone in the 90's. 

How can you NOT put John Hughes in the top part of the list for most important people in movies of all time; in terms of directing and writing. Let's crack that list a bit. You have Scorsese, Spielberg, Cameron, Hitchcock, Fellini, Coppala, Woody Allen, Kubrick, Oliver Stone, Tim Burton, Tarantino, Spike Lee, Michael Mann, Wes Anderson, Lucas, Crowe, Altman, Soderbergh, Stone, etc.

Look at that list! Monumental names that brought us The Godfather, Star Wars, Jaws, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Psycho, Malcolm X, JFK, Pulp Fiction, Good Fellas, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, ET, Titanic, Jurassic Park, La Dolce Vita, A Clockwork Orange, Jerry Maguire, etc. Incredible list right? You've seen a lot of these haven't you?

Now let's single out John Hughes. In terms of directing, Hughes is responsible for: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Weird Science, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck.

In terms of writing, those films of course plus; the three Vacations, Mr. Mom, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Home Alone, The Great Outdoors, Flubber, 101 Dalmations, Beethoven, Dutch, Career Opportunities and more. Pretty impressive? I mean lets be real MOST of you have seen MOST of these movies. You grew up on them. Some of those movies raised you. Those movies WERE you and Hughes knew it. He knew teenagers and how to bring that world to the movies for us to watch and say, "yes, I know that person" or "yes, that is totally me". No one in movie history could portray teenage life better than John Hughes.

About 25 years ago Hughes stepped out of the spotlight and hid away for the most part from the media and Hollywood. In the late 90's, he gave his last interview, period.

About 10 years after that, some young filmmakers who were proud students of the John Hughes ways of writing and filmmaking set out on a journey to find Hughes and maybe a little more about how he could do the things he did with movies.

This is the documentary of that search mission and the remembrance of the wonderful magic that is John Hughes!